Just started with the Bitcoin after researching for quite a bit, need help plz!

[bitman7070]

Hey guys and gals of the bit-coin world,

Just recently I'v really started getting into the whole Bitcoin currency and what it's all about and I know it's pretty much past the point of making a killing when buying loads of this to reap a pretty profit on the USD but I just wanted to play around with it for a bit and see what I could do. I nicely got hold of 2 ASICMiner Block Erupter for $9 so I don't have too worry too much about making my money back. I'm not looking to make extra-ordinary amounts here but just some enough to play around with.

To make a long story short, I have downloaded BFG Miner and just have one ASICMiner in my USB slot right now, just too see how things are going to go and I've pretty much hit a snag.
I've got 1 ASICMiner plugged in and ready to go and start up BFGMiner (it blinks when I put it in and then remains a constant green).

I've got everything set up to the point where the BFGMiner screen comes up and everything and it says:

 "[2013-11-08 13:51:19] Waiting for devices; press 'M+' to add, or 'Q' to quit
 [2013-11-08 13:51:19] Need to specify at least one pool server.
Input server details.
URL:"


I input everything, the url, worker name and password and then BFG Miner closes right away, not a chance to even look what's happening.

If it helps, I have a ATI Radeon HD 4200, I'm pretty sure it's enough to get somewhere so that shouldn't be a problem.

If anyone could help me with this, that'd be great, thanks.

[Miramyn]

Did you install the drivers for the block erupters?

BTC Guild has a great writeup here:
https://btcguild.com/index.php?page=support&section=blockerupter

That will walk you through installing and setting up the BE's for both Windows and Linux

[bitman7070]

Yes, they already show up as COMS in my "Devices and Printers" tab in my operating system of Windows 7.

[mindofmyown]

Are you signed up with a mining pool? I would recommend Slush's if you have not.
After you sign up with Slush you should go to the FAQ and it will give you what you need to connect. (It should be something like:
BFGMiner -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u (your username) -p (password) --disable-gpu (to disable your GPU if wanted) -G -S erupter:all )

keep in mind that 1 ASICMiner will take you over a year to earn 1 btc.

[bitman7070]

I'm already signed up with Slush's believe it or not after looking around for a bit, had that all filled out (starting with a notepad txt. file, then converting it to a .bat etc....).

I deleted everything and might try again reinstalling everything tommorow, because I had CG Miner installed and deleted it due it giving me even more errors than what I have now, that was telling me that I didn't have openCL.dll installed, so I downloaded the ATI Catalyst and fixed that problem.

I actual had a rig in mind, to try heavily enough, I bought a 7 port USB Hub and a cooling fan off Amazon, but the USB hub that was shipped was made for XP and the Cooling fan was broken, lol. Bad luck it seems.

[mindofmyown]

I have an Anker 9 port USB 3 hub that works great for 8 miners. I bought a notebook cooler fan from Big Lots ($5) that works well to cool. The first hub I got had a bad port, but they shipped me out a replacement right away that worked completely.